I miss mine. They were awesome. Just don't touch the bulb when installing it.
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These are awesome still. Replace the halogen bulb with an LED and you’re all set?
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I don't know when this started but most bedrooms don't even have a ceiling light anymore, so you still need these floor lamps.
Cheap construction. That was really prevalent in the 60s and 70s, I'm finding a lot of those in my current house hunt
It's still common in newer construction. My 2000s house doesn't have ceiling lights in any bedroom but the master bedroom. They just wire half the wall plugs to the switch in the room.
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I have two of these, they stopped working but I can’t bring myself to throw them away.
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If you look up The Sharper Image in an encyclopedia, it has a picture of this lamp and a vibrating pillow.
And a sleep mask!
They also put out a huge amount of heat ! Quite useful in old high rise flats !
Good for heating the ceiling anyway
Knock them over and put the heat where it belongs
What I remember most about them is that they were extremely effective as unintentional bug zappers. The SMELL of instantly vaporized burnt moths in the room is something I'll likely never forget.
I'm tall so sometimes I was the first person in ages to discover a bug graveyard at someones place.
Oh yeah! I forgot.
Lucky you
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